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Civil Engineering Projects

Civil Engineering Projects 

Bridge Tanzania Project 

Project Manager: Doug Stumpp 
Student Project Manager:  Lilly
Wertz
Technical Lead: Jonathan Miller

We are partnering with Malaika Africa and the community of Bwawani in northern Tanzania to design a culvert to improve access to school, healthcare facilities, and local businesses for the 14,000 residents in Bwawani.  Malaika Africa is committed to supporting sustainable community development in Tanzania through education, empowerment, health, and social initiatives.

Clean Accessible Water Solutions

Project Manager: Michelle Lockwood
Student Project Manager:  Joey Knoll

We are partnering with CIYOTA and Love Africa Mission (LAM) to design and build a water purification system at a secondary school in Uganda.  CIYOTA is a refugee led, community-driven non-profit organization dedicated to empowering refugees and marginalized youth in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This project will work in conjunction with the rainwater collection and distribution project team to provide the volume and quality of safe water for the 1,000 students the school currently serves.

Rebar Truss Evaluation Team

Project Manager: Erik Weenink
Student Project Manager: Levi Beamer
Partner: Friends in Action International

We are partnering with Friends in Action International, a missions organization that serves other Christian organizations throughout the world with construction and infrastructure projects.  Our team will be analyzing existing building truss systems in Senegal to determine what spans are possible, material options, loading, and ways of strengthening the basic designs. The goal is to create a catalog of options that can be presented to missionaries or mission organizations wanting to build new structures.

Water Collection with CIYOTA

Project Manager: Jessica Besnier
Student Project Manager: Ben Musser
Partner: CIYOTA

We are partnering with CIYOTA and Love Africa Mission (LAM) to design and build a rainwater storage and distribution system at a secondary school in Uganda.  CIYOTA is a refugee led, community-driven non-profit organization dedicated to empowering refugees and marginalized youth in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This project will work in conjunction with our water purification project team to provide the volume and quality of safe water for the 1,000 students the school currently serves.

Landfill - Bolivia

Project Manager: Daniel Adeleke
Student Project Manager: Evan Merrill
Partner: FOCADES

We are partnering with Asociación de Fomento, Capacitación, Desarrollo, Empleo y Salud (FOCADES) to design a sanitary landfill for the Quilihuaya District, which comprises 12 communities in Bolivia. FOCADES is focused on community promotion, professional training, employment generation, and health initiatives.  The landfill will help improve sanitation for over 2,400 people and 600 homes and has the potential to be replicated in other communities in Bolivia.

Land Development/Stormwater

Project Manager: Michelle Lockwood
Student Project Manager: Thomas Keefer
Partner: ABWE International

We are partnering with the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) at a hospital campus in Togo.  The site currently holds water which can result in mosquitoes and malaria, and the water is currently eroding roadways and impacting a neighboring property.  Our team will design solutions to dry the site through stormwater management techniques, wall improvements, and roadway designs.  ABWE is a Christian organization dedicated to church planting, supporting leaders, and other missions initiatives all over the globe.

Civil Engineering Project Gallery

Students working on the Alaska Bridge Project
Students working on the clean accessible water solutions project.
Students working on the Kenya water collection project
Students working on the land development project in Nigeria